Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers: watchdog: Add support for panic notifier callback

[Guenter Roeck]

On 2/20/25 18:35, George Cherian wrote:
> Watchdog is not turned off in kernel panic situation.
> In certain systems this might prevent the successful loading
> of kdump kernel. The kdump kernel might hit a watchdog reset
> while it is booting.
>
> To avoid such scenarios add a panic notifier call back function
> which can stop the watchdog. This provision can be enabled on per
> driver basis if the user wishes to by setting the flag
> WDOG_STOP_ON_PANIC from respective drivers.

I think this makes sense in principal, but it should not be driver specific.

Guenter